During an interview with FOX Business, former Rep. Ron Paul explained that he was concerned about the well-being of National Security Agency whistle-blower Edward Snowden.

Im worried about somebody in our government might kill him with a cruise missile or a drone missile, Paul explained. I mean we live in a bad time where American citizens dont even have rights and that they can be killed, but the gentlemen is trying to tell the truth about whats going on.

Paul added that there were no signs of Snowden defecting to a foreign country, which meant that he was not really a threat.....

He may be a loon on some issues but this time I’m not laughing. I don’t put anything past obama. If he turns up dead under any circumstances we need look no further than obama. People are dropping like flies since he entered the WH.

Usually Id say that Ron Paul is the whackiest of whack jobs but in this case, considering how bad Snowden makes Obama look and there are people out there that are willing to do anything to protect Obama, I wouldnt be surprised if Snowden gets taken out, not by a drone, but killed by some other means, it might already have been done

Assuming he is what he says he is, it may as well be a drone strike that gets him.

Whether it comes by a button being pushed or a phone call being made, if he is what he says he is, he'll be disappeared and the person who wants that done won't get their hands dirty making it happen.

It's primitive, to be sure. Maybe in a few years, they won't need drones. They'll just drop a tungsten rod from space. But for now, tyranny is as tyranny does and will have to make do with what is available.

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posted on 06/11/2013 5:28:39 PM PDT
by GBA
(Here in the Matrix, life is but a dream.)

So I guess a few ‘silencers’ here, a ‘little’ 4th Amendment violation there, an occasional US citizen assassination without due process wherever, it’s all good cuz the ends justifies the means. The system has been corrupted. Those in power ignore laws. Why ANYONE still obeys any law is a wonderment....

Sorry, I do take it seriously...in like NDAA “belligerent” act seriously...

This is where the NDAA of 2012 comes back to haunt us. Well, under the NDAA all it takes is to commit a belligerent act. Who defines what that is? The President of the United States. http://www.belligerentact.org/

Congress is taking up the issue of Snowden today. Will he be deemed a whistleblower or traitor. Feinstein has already tipped their hand. The argument is if by revealing what the NSA is doing did Snowden commit a belligerent act? Did he compromise the security of the United States? If the President says he did...then he is an enemy of the state and subject to the provisions under the NDAA.

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posted on 06/11/2013 5:33:56 PM PDT
by EBH
(The government that sits in Washington, D.C. is not the United States government.)

I don’t agree with ANYONE all the time...so I certainly take issues with some of Dr. Paul’s stands...but on this I agree. I do NOT think Dr. Paul would make such a statement if he was not concerned for Snowden’s safety. We NEED more pols (current and former) to do the same heavy lifting that Ron Paul just did. It is REPREHENSIBLE that Boehner once again aligned himself with the very Administration BREAKING the boundaries of the Fourth Amendment, and JUST THE MILLIONS WHOSE DATA WAS CAPTURED, NOT GRANTING SNOWDEN DUE PROCESS!!!

Sorry. Snowden is a traitor just like Manning, though perhaps not as bad as Manning... Inasmuch as he seems to have exaggerated both his own résumé and the capabilities the government was supposed to have.

I’m saying tuned a bit more before I flip the switch. This Snowden guy gives me the creeps. Heroes don’t run to China to do their thing. There’s still nothing-— nothing-— in his allegations that even appears to be illegal.

I’m still waiting on this... I’m not sold.

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posted on 06/11/2013 5:50:08 PM PDT
by Ramius
(Personally, I give us one chance in three. More tea anyone?)

LOL you are beyond naive. The evil left has turned the NSA towards domestic spying. I am sure it's the tip of the ice berg on just what evils humans in our government are undertaking at the direction of the Obama and his Marxist cohorts.

If you have a chance, please listen to Levin's opening of his show tonight. Levin clearly explains how unconstitutional it is for the NSA to be turned towards domestic spying.

Snowden has done Liberty a valuable service by bringing to light the evils of this regime.

P.S. The simple fact that most in D.C. are calling him a traitor convinces me that Snowden the the proper and honorable thing.

methinks we might have dueling traitors..who lied and betrayed US first? Is it traitorous to unmask a traitor by the only means possible? If we had a fair and just government I might agree with you, but in the course of human events....which I think we are nearing at breakneck speed from an out of control government sometimes options are limited. What happened to fast and furious? Benghazi? IRS? Reporters records being taken under false pretenses? who has gone to jail or even been reprimanded and not promoted?

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